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BLACK LIGHTNING #1
Cover Date: April 1977
Cover Price: $0.30
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Cover Credits:
Pencils: Rich Buckler (signed)
Inks: Frank Springer (signed)
Colors: Tatjana Wood
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Credits:
Story | Tony Isabella |
Pencils | Trevor Von Eeden |
Inks | Frank Springer |
Lettering | P. G. Lisa |
Colors | Liz Berube |
Editing | Jack C. Harris |
Feature Character(s):
- Black Lightning (Jefferson Pierce; first appearance)
Supporting Character(s):
- Peter Gambi (first appearance)
Villain(s):
- The 100 (first appearance)
- Tobias Whale (first appearance; next in issue #3)
- Joey Toledo (first appearance)
- Manny (first appearance)
- Roscoe (first appearance)
- other unnamed members (first appearance of all)
- Merlyn (last in Action Comics #443)
Other Character(s):
- Principal MacNair "Mac" Chapin (first appearance; next in issue #3)
- Earl Clifford (a student and basketball player; first appearance; dies)
- Julie (a student; first appearance)
Location(s):
Comment(s):
- Story continues in the next issue.
Story Reprinted in:
- DC Special Blue Ribbon Digest #22 (June 1982)
- Black Lightning ([April] 2016)
Solicitation:
- Ex-Olympic athlete Jefferson Pierce takes a job as a school teacher at an inner city school in Metropolis and takes on the name of Black Lightning!
Credits:
- Tony Isabella (presumed) (script)
- typeset (letters)
- Jack C. Harris (edits)
Comment(s):
- An article "written by Jimmy Olsen" regarding the death of Earl Clifford and the appearance of Black Lightning.